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A vast empire of antiquity, Rome united military power, law, and centralized administration under the emperor, expanding across three continents and bequeathing language, laws, and institutions that shaped Western civilization.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist24%
Byzantium's most successful general under Justinian I, he reconquered Vandal North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, and crushed the Nika riots (532) with a massacre at the Hippodrome. Loyal to the emperor even under suspicion and humiliation, he ran a rigidly disciplined army.
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Governed by Yoweri Museveni since 1986, Uganda is a dominant-party presidential republic with no term or age limit, a repressed opposition, a harsh anti-LGBT law, a very young population, large refugee intake and oil on the way.
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Established in 1542, the kingdom was ruled in personal union by the English and later British Crown, with administration in Dublin. The Catholic majority faced penal laws and political exclusion; legislative union with Great Britain ended the kingdom in 1800.
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